"Posterity, you will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in heaven that ever I took half the pains to preserve it." -John Adams
Welcome to Patriot's Lament. We strive here to educate ourselves on Liberty. We will not worry ourselves so much with the daily antics of American politics, and drown ourselves in the murky waters of the political right or left. Instead, we will look to the Intellectuals and Champions of Liberty, and draw on their wisdom of what it is to be a truly free people. We will learn from where our Providential Liberties are derived, and put the proper perspective of a Free Individual and the State. Please join us!
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Great interview with Stefan Molyneux and Tom Woods
They talk about Libertarianism and Anarchism. There is no coming out of this (USA) without collapse and chaos; do you want a Libertarian in office when the whole thing collapses? Who would the people blame? Based on history, that is an easy answer.
All of the machinations within the Republican party are only meaningful to the extent that they plant the seeds of the ideas of liberty. An engineered victory via manipulating the process is a failure because the broad part of the people will ultimately get the government they want one way or the other. No, people may not want this _particular_ flavor of tyranny, but they want tyranny and are willing to put up with this flavor to avoid having to be free, or let their neighbor be free.
All of the machinations within the Republican party are only meaningful to the extent that they plant the seeds of the ideas of liberty. An engineered victory via manipulating the process is a failure because the broad part of the people will ultimately get the government they want one way or the other. No, people may not want this _particular_ flavor of tyranny, but they want tyranny and are willing to put up with this flavor to avoid having to be free, or let their neighbor be free.
ReplyDeleteJim in Kenai